Example sentences of "when [pron] [adj] started [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , when I first started writing , and had completed my first novels , I was not allowed to sign a contract for it . |
| 2 | When I first started teaching drama I accepted the prevailing dogma that you started by getting children to work individually , then in pairs , then in small groups and eventually ( when they were really good at drama ) in larger groups ! |
| 3 | Example : The Circus When I first started teaching drama the stock infant lesson was " making a circus " ! |
| 4 | When I first started thinking about Christmas , I decided to spend it alone and stuff myself with food . |
| 5 | Erm the danger is I think when I first started meeting people , right , you know |
| 6 | Erm , I found it was like reading Shakespeare when I first started reading Shakespeare . |
| 7 | Sort of when I first started using it at work |
| 8 | No I remember from what I can remember anyway when I first started using negative numbers it was on a graph . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom . |
| 10 | And yo when I look back an and er and think of even when I first started nursing a lot of the girls we used to get in , they thought if they kissed a man they were going to have a baby . |
| 11 | When I first started to smoke a cigarette , I felt ill but I kept on because everyone else was doing it , but with sniffing glue when I first tried it I enjoyed it , it 's something I did enjoy , that 's the reason I started anyway . ’ |
| 12 | When I first started to explore Scotland by train , there were long spacious carriages , first and second class , with a restaurant and buffet , a guard 's van where bikes could be carried free of charge , and a service that transported you to the Highlands through snow drifts that would bury a car . |
| 13 | Balbinder was 3 years old when I first started visiting the house , a very sociable child who eagerly awaited my arrival and the chance to play with the bag of toys I always brought with me . |
| 14 | When I first started becoming a woman on playing on the beach and I ran home petrified . |
| 15 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 16 | When I first started playing , there was n't anything like that in the stores . |
| 17 | ‘ When I first started going to open-cast sites I was unusual and it was pretty well guaranteed to stop operations in their tracks . ’ |
| 18 | An and the other thing is of course , when I first started going on it you ca n't read while you 're on it |
| 19 | I never dreamed how much , when I first started to play with my newly written EVOLUTION program . |
| 20 | My impression is that the cocoa from Traidcraft is very much the same price , as when I last bought it from the supermarket when you first started stocking |
| 21 | So when you first started hiring out boats was it where did you get your boats from was it |
| 22 | And good voice training will make your natural delivery sound ten times better than when you first started training . |
| 23 | I 'm much less agnostic than I was , Ellis , when you first started to make an issue of this . |
| 24 | This when you first started killing |
| 25 | Like when you first started accelerating : the beams still hit the bullseye — more or less . |
| 26 | Pat told of how , when she first started knitting , she was given some patterns . |
| 27 | He said , ‘ When she first started making the calls , how did she pay for them ? ’ |
| 28 | When we first started strumming , there was definitely a real affinity with the feel , so who knows ? |
| 29 | Yeah , we got it and another time you see , when we wer when we used to be crane drivers , when we first started crane driving , the job for a crane driver was to do anything , you were a crane driver but if your crane wanted painting you would paint it yourself , chip to paint it . |
| 30 | ‘ When we first started doing dressage people could n't believe it , ’ said Pauline . |